space

One of the things I absolutely adored as a child is staring at the incredibly intricate and detailed book covers for old hard science fiction novels, and their stunning depictions of what space colonies would look like in the future.…

Now that Discovery has finished its final journey into orbit, crews are getting the Space Shuttle ready for its retirement – which isn’t to say that it’s headed off to a dusty trail somewhere: Discovery has a lot of work…

(photo by Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images, originally published at Boston.com) If you didn’t know, Space Shuttle Discovery just returned to Earth from its final journey to space. In tribute, the folks at Boston.com, known not only for their news…

When I stumbled on SolarBeat, I thought it would be cute and quaint and simple, and it’s all of those things, but at the same time it’s a remarkably mesmerizing little web app that puts the motion of the planets…